Episode 4:01: RHEL Tough Choices

Coming up in this episode * The Catchup Episode (We've missed so much!) * The Red Hat Recap * Browser Watch...ing! * Some feedback, and a focus The Video Podcast (https://youtu.be/ZKm9vgJzAO8) https://youtu.be/ZKm9vgJzAO8 401 Audio Timestamps 0:00 Cold Open 2:16 The Gentoo Checkin 11:33 We Have a Lemmy! 19:24 Red Hat Recap 46:09 Browser Watch 1:05:21 Feedback 1:23:05 Community Focus: Linux Matters 1:27:03 App Focus: Jerboa & Memmy 1:34:48 Next Time: Debian 1:37:09 Stinger Banter Gentoo check in - Use the Handbook! (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page) The wiki (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page) is just great in general. Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/) The Linux User Space Lemmy instance (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/) feddit's community browser (https://browse.feddit.de/) Another Lemmy explorer (https://lemmyverse.net/communities) Announcements 📺️ Give us a sub on YouTube (https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube) and TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace). 📽️ You can watch us live on Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) the day after an episode drops. 😍 If you like what we're doing here, make sure to send us a buck over at https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace RH takes their source and goes home 2019 July - IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat. Jim Whitehurst said at the time (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future). 2020 December - CentOS Stream announced as the successor (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux) to CentOS Linux. an FAQ (https://centos.org/distro-faq/) linked in the CentOS announcement about Stream (https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream) 2021 January - Red Hat announces more free RHEL (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel). February - Brian Exelbierd noted on the Red Hat Developer site (https://web.archive.org/web/20230621142027/https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/02/03/a-guide-for-using-centos-project-code). March - Alma Linux 8.3 was released (https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-os-stable-release-is-live/) June - Rocky Linux followed with their 8.4 release (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-4-ga-release/) 2022 Red Hat was posting 15% revenue increases (https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article271678707.html) every quarter of the year. IBM, despite its projected 3900 person layoff (https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-4Q22-Earnings-Prepared-Remarks.pdf) was growing at similar rates. 2023 April - Red Hat announement (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/message-red-hat-associates-today) Ben Cotton and others were laid off (https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2023/05/12/inaction-bcotton/). June - Red Hat announce that CentOS sources will no longer be on github (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream) Brian Exelbierd's post from February 2021 changed (https://web.archive.org/web/20230621142027/https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/02/03/a-guide-for-using-centos-project-code). Mike McGrath writes a clarification post (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes) Rocky Linux announces that they'll possibly be using the Universal Base Images (https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/) July - Alma Linux no longer aims (https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/) for bug-for-bug compatibility. SUSE and Oracle Oracle's press release (https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/) Oracle Linux (https://www.oracle.com/linux/) SUSE's statement (https://www.suse.com/c/navigating-changes-in-the-open-source-landscape/) SUSE Liberty Linux (https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/) SUSE Manager (https://www.suse.com/products/suse-manager/) More Announcements Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us